For anybody that doesn’t enjoy watching news, here’s a little piece for you to enjoy. News first objective isn’t to be enjoyable. That happens over time. I didn’t watch any news until I started working for a TV-station. Furthermore, I didn’t enjoy being there until a couple months after I started. It used to be boring to me. Sometimes it still is. The key to enjoying news is finding the funny things in it.
For example, have you ever noticed how ridiculous some of CNN’s programming is? Filling time is a big issue in the news, but it comes from that inability to easily fill time with significant news where you get hilarious snippets. Check out the video I posted at the bottom from The Onion News Network on Youtube. The Onion is a fictitious news organization with the motto, “Making you Seem Better Informed.” It’s all about having fun.
The thought most people have about the news is that it’s rigid, uptight, and only for upper-class individuals. In reality, you just have to find the best station that fits for you. While news is supposed to offer unbiased opinions, most people know that’s only a guideline, and when we watch different news networks the fact is, each one caters to a different crowd. Election years show the differences clearly. Fox offered support to McCain and NBC swayed voters toward Obama. So try this: if you’re liberal watch NBC networks and conservatives may try Fox. If you still don’t like it, watch The Onion, then go back, watch the news, and try to see if you can spot the ridiculousness of how serious the news tries to be. Trust me, after two and a half years of working at a news station, they fail miserably. They just don’t make it obvious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo&playnext_from=TL&videos=J-TRw5W51Qs
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I meant News in that title. Hahaha
ReplyDeleteThis blog made me laugh! :) What you said is so true. Media just makes a big deal about certain things that really don't matter just to fill up some time. In some cases, it can be important and in others, not so much. I wish there was a news station that was unbiased but I think that is impossible to find. I do find myself watching Fox most of the time but I would just prefer not to watch any. Although I do think it is important to be informed, it makes me laugh to see the media try to grab ahold of people and scare them half to death.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting.(This could be a sweet paper topic.) I love The Onion, by the way.
ReplyDeleteDid you see Tyler's blog this week?